Talk:Facebook Pages
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Stupid question: when you update a Facebook Page, does it result in a News Feed item?
How do developers create test pages?
[edit] enabling pages to add your application
The instructions on this page for how to enable your app to be added by pages are vague and unclear. I can see the button for enabling pages to add your app, but like this wiki says, that setting doesn't seem to actually do anything. When I go back to my settings page, the "no pages" radio is checked, and I can't add my app to my page. What is this "edit URL" that the wiki page speaks of that also has to be edited for this to work?
Yet another example of hideously derelict Facebook documentation. Even after you 1) Check on the CHECKBOX "Installable to Facebook Pages" under your application Edit Settings->Authentication, and 2) Set up a Tab URL under application Edit Settings->Profile you STILL do NOT enable people to add a tab to their "page" (hey, Facebook, thanks for the generic unsearchable descriptive name) with the "+" function (unlike the parallel function of their user profile page). EVEN if they have added the application and just used it, it STILL will not be recognized by typing the name in the search to add box on one of their "pages". They still have to search for, find and go to your application PROFILE page, and THERE in the left column is a link "Add to my Page", which brings up a dialog box where you can select the page with "Add to Page" (assuming you can dodge the Javascript errors the Facebook pages are throwing at your browser the whole time), but even that doesn't do it until you go BACK to your "page", click on the "+" sign add tab again, and FINALLY you see the application as an option. Hey, Facebook, thanks again for the swell documentation.
[edit] Inaccurate doc about Page admins?
This line:
Please note that actions that appear to be taken by a page are actually taken by one of the Page's admins on behalf of the Page.
Is no longer true, it seems to me, given that a Page can be created without an associated User (admin) account. Correct?
[edit] API calls do not work with pages
Looks like many popular API calls like photos.getAlbums do not work with FBPages. One would expect substitution of the uid with a pageid should allow the API call to function the same for a FBPage as it does for a profile. Turns out that API calls to pageid's return no result. I hope the Facebook team fixes this soon. 1181029451 08:47, 10 November 2008 (PST)
- It's a known issue that the photos.* calls don't work with Facebook Pages. See http://bugs.developers.facebook.com/show_bug.cgi?id=942. It's a non-trivial fix, and we don't have an ETA for fixing it at this time. Pete (563683308 18:12, 10 November 2008 (PST))
